Spike-pulling device



UNITED STATES Patented February 9, 1904.

GEORGE H. BELL, OF JOB, WEST VIRGINIA.

SPlKE-PULLING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 751,604, dated February9, 1904.

Application filed September 10, 1903. Serial No. 172,624. (No model.*

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Be it known that I, GEORGE H. BELL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Job, in the county of Randolph and State of West Virginia,have invented new and useful Improvements in Spike-Pulling Devices, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to spike-pullers or similar devices, and has forits object the providing of a device of the class described that shallbe simple in construction, inexpensive, effective in operation and onethat can be easily moved from place to place, as may be desired in theoperation of its functions.

The object of my invention is accomplished by the novel construction andarrangement of parts more fully hereinafter described, and referred toand illustrated in the drawings herewith accompanying and made a part ofthe specification.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my device as it appearsready for operation. Fig. 2 is a vertical section. Fig. 3 is a detailedperspective view of the claw member.

Like numerals of reference designate similar parts in all the figures ofthe drawings.

1 designates a standard with an upper recess or opening 2 therein and alower opening or recess 3. In the upper opening or recess is fulcrumed alever 4 by means of a pin 5. A series of holes 6 are disposed in saidlever near the end, as shown, and adapted to hold a pin 7, engaging withcorresponding holes in a perpendicularly-disposed claw member 8, whichis provided with an opening or recess 9 and a plurality of holes 10 andalso with two outwardly-projecting claws or prongs 11, adapted to fitunder the head of a spike and to engage therewith. An angular-shapedlever 12, adapted to be operated by foot-power and provided with atreadle 13, is secured in the lower recess or opening 3 by means of apinM and provided with side projections 15, adapted to engage with theedge of the standard 1 when the foot-piece is raised or lowered. Thislever or foot-piece 12 is provided with an outwardly-projecting pointwhich when the same is raised is brought within the recess or opening 3;but when the lever or foot-piece is lowered the point 16 extends beyondthe recess or opening and engages with the perpendicularly-disposed clawmember 8.

In operation the standard 1 is disposed in such proximity to a spikethat the prongs 11 by lowering the lever 4 are brought in juxtapositionwith the spike to be drawn. By

pressure of the foot on the treadle 13 the point 16 of the lower leveris brought against the lower end of the perpendicularly-disposed clawmember 8, which action forces the claws or prongs 11 beneath the head ofthe spike and holds them there. By lowering the lever 41: the clawmember is forced upward, the claws or prongs 11 carrying the head of thespike with them, and thus pulling the spike from its position. In orderthat the device may be the more easily handled and moved from point topoint, it is found desirable to have the upper lever made of two pieces,the one fitting within the other, as shown at 17.

It is obvious that certain modifications of form and arrangement ofparts will suggest themselvesto the skilled mechanic, but whichmodifications and arrangements come well within the scope and spirit ofmy invention as disclosed and claimed, and I therefore do not desire tobe limited to the precise construction and arrangement shown.

Having thus described my said invention, what I claim as new, and desireto protect by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. 1n an apparatus of the class described, a standard, a levercomprising two parts, a perpendicularlydisposed claw member, a pluralityof claws, a foot-lever adapted to engage with theperpendicularly-disposed claw member, and means for securing theperpendicularly-disposed claw member to the lever.

2. In an apparatus of the class described, a standard, an upper lever, alower lever, a perpendicularlydisposed claw member, a plurality of clawsat its lower end, means for fulcruming' the levers 0n the standard,means I to this specification in the presence of two subfor securing theperpendicularly dispbsed scribing Witnesses. claw member to the end ofthe upper lever,

and a point on the lower lever adapted to en- GEORGE BELL 5 gage withthe perpendicularly-disposed claw Witnesses:

member. M. O. HARMAN,

In testimony whereof I have signed my name I WV. A. SUMMERFIE D.

